Nimbin Hemp Bar a drug haven no more

[grace]

THE free-wheeling days of buying cannabis and pot smoking at Nimbin's Hemp Bar and the Nimbin Museum are over – or so it would seem.

 

The Nimbin Hemp Bar has been revamped and reopened as part of the Hemp Embassy and will not tolerate drug deals and smoking on the premises.

 

The Nimbin Museum has installed cameras to help stomp out drug dealing. A fence is being built beside the notorious Rainbow Lane.

 

Museum founder and operator Michael Balderstone confirmed his associate Elspeth Jones had applied to take over the museum.

 

Lease negotiations are still being finalised.

 

Mr Balderstone said two of the four museum security cameras have been stolen.

 

Hemp activist Gary Big Bong, also known as Max Stone, said the bar was not sublet and had been remodelled.

 

It is part of the Hemp Embassy and a showplace for its continuing political activism.

 

It was closed for four months after police issued a letter to its landlord, the Nimbin Community School co-operative, to evict the tenants because of the belief that ongoing drug supply was taking place there.

 

“There is definitely no pot smoking here now,” Mr Big Bong said.

 

“It is no longer a cannabis cafe demonstration model.”

 

Should there be cameras inside Nimbin museum? Phone 6624 3266 or SMS 0428 264 948 or leave your comments below.

 

 

Date: 20th January 2009

Source: Northern Star

http://www.northernstar.com.au/story/2009/...-haven-no-more/

[jabez]

Is this just more government propaganda, or has nimbin really gone underground?

[Rocker]

The Mardi Grass should be interesting this year. Very interesting.

[Teucer]

I regularly get down to Nimbin and as to it going underground - yeah right!

 

The problem is - the Nimbin sellers sell CRAP pot. Whether it be hydge or bush it's shite. And way underweighed. I'm gonna go so far as to begin taking my own scales.

 

I wish my grow would hurry up so I wouldn't have to buy!

[Rhastah]

I'm gonna go so far as to begin taking my own scales.

 

if you did that, i think they would rob you for your money...

 

last time i went it to nimbin it was pretty easy to get weed, of any kind plus space cakes or hash cookies. spent two hours at the pub, i was drunk so i was like f**k it and bought even more before i left. some nice people there. Some do meth n heroin tho and their f**ked up... But still have a look in the hemp museum its still pretty awesome in there.

im so baked, cyas later.